.............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: \\bahai// Attacks, Bullying Date: Saturday, May 20, 2000 8:41 AM This file contains two messages: "attacks by Bahais" & "Bahai Bullying": The non-Bahai will note that a year later, now March 2000, my fellow Bahais only continue, with renewed ferocity, their attempts to silence and suppress what they don't want you to know about: Incessant Bahai attacks upon my freedom of speech and liberty, as well as on others, have made it necessary for me to adopt a persona for my own protection and well being. Other measures have been taken. During the late winter and spring of 1999, Bahais twice flooded my hotmail account with up to 1000 messages per day resulting in considerable inconvenience and expenditure of time and effort to block, and ultimately close, the offending accounts; they have, by using numerous Bahai trolls, especially Gyr Falcon, slandered, maligned, and caricatured me in a further effort to discredit me and portray me on talk.religion.bahai and elsewhere as a disturbed and errant individual; through concerted false charges and allegations against me, they have now succeeded in deceiving Hotmail into closing my email account, which I depended on for a considerable part of my income and livelihood. For documentation of many similar incidents of Bahai oppression during the last decade, see The Bahai Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience: http://members.tripod.com/~fglaysher/bahai.htm ----------------------------------------------------------- BULLYING: I'm alarmed at the Bahai attempts, during May of 1999, at character assassination, ridicule, and generally portraying me and others as disturbed individuals. This tactic has been used for over three years and continues to be used against me and other Bahais and non-Bahais or ex-Bahais on and off talk.religion.bahai. I have never claimed to be perfect. At times I have apologized to Bahais, Muslims, and other non-Bahais when I felt, or was convinced, that I was wrong or had spoken unfairly. I find the constant technique to portray me as a megalomanic or paranoid quite offensive. Similarly, the tactic of accusing me of spam for posting my opinions is calculated to discredit the validity of my and others' concerns regarding censorship in Bahai forums and has also been used on AOL. Such accusations reveal the frustration that Bahai fundamentalists apparently feel over my having found ways of enduring and resisting the onslaught of their concerted attacks, while preserving a historical record on a markedly ephermeral medium for innocent Bahais and non-Bahais.... Fair-minded Bahai and non-Bahai observers may judge for themselves whether my and others' allegations of censorship are valid by reading the record preserved under "Assorted Controversial Documents" on my website at http://members.tripod.com/~fglaysher/bahai.htm As further corroboration that I am not the only person concerned with the intolerance and censorship that has overtaken the Bahai Faith, I recommend Professor Juan Cole's new book Modernity & the Millennium: The Genesis of the Bahai Faith in the Nineteenth-Century Middle East, available through Columbia University Press or Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0231110812/002-4036721-8058448 In his conclusion, which would never have passed the system of Bahai "review" that the UHJ imposes on all publications brought out under its tight control, Professor Cole, of the Department of History at The University of Michigan, quite accurately identifies the distortions that have been wreaked upon Baha'u'llah's Teachings: "Some contemporary leaders of the Baha'i Faith have given answers increasingly similar to those of fundamentalists, stressing scriptural literalism, patriachy, theocracy, censorship, intellectual intolerance, and denying key democratic values. While the values of the nineteenth- century Baha'i movement, which was far more tolerant, continue to exist as a minority view, by the late 1990s a different set of emphases prevailed." (196) He himself and many others, as evidence under the "Assorted Controversial Documents," have suffered at the hands of the fundamentalists who have taken control of the religion: "The rise of academic Baha'i scholarship has caused tension in the community, whose present-day leadership tends to be fundamentalist and antiliberal in orientation, and this has led to pressure on a number of prominent academics to resign or dissociate themselves from the movement." (201) These same forces of fundamentalist orthodoxy are evident on AOL, talk.religion.bahai, and alt.religion.bahai for impartial viewers to witness. They will be evident to all perceptive observers of whatever forum Bahais may be trying to control and influence. As a Bahai since 1976, I myself have always found especially repulsive the manner in which Bahai fundamentalists attempt to manipulate the institutions and leaders of government, the United Nations, and public opinion, while pretending to values they deride in private or at Bahai-only meetings. Ultimately, it is the Bahai Universal House of Justice that is responsible for the perversion and corruption of such clear and elevating teachings of Baha'u'llah and Abdu'l-Baha as the following: "These are effectual and sufficient proofs that the conscience of man is sacred and to be respected; and that liberty thereof produces widening of ideas, amendment of morals, improvement of conduct, disclosure of the secrets of the contingent world." Abdu'l-Baha, A Traveler's Narrative, 91. The UHJ is also in the end responsible for inciting Bahai fanatics and fundamentalists to attack other Bahais and non-Bahais merely for their views expressed on and off line in free forums of public discussion. I recommend all newcomers to these matters read "The Bahai Technique": http://members.tripod.com/~fglaysher/technique.htm On The Bahai Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience: http://members.tripod.com/~fglaysher/bahai.htm Professor Juan Cole, of the University of Michigan, discusses related issues in his journal article "The Baha'i Faith in America as Panopticon, 1963-1997": http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrcole/bahai/1999/jssr/bhjssr.htm Also see: Full Text of UHJ's Letter of April 7, 1999 http://members.tripod.com/~fglaysher/UHJLetterApril71999.htm Juan Cole, "Commentary" on UHJ's "outburst of vehement ignorance" http://members.tripod.com/~fglaysher/Outburst.htm Letter of Resignation from Paul Dodenhoff, Assistant to the Auxiliary Board http://members.tripod.com/~fglaysher/LetterResignationPD.htm -- Patrick Henry.... "Give me liberty or give me death!" 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